out with sem1

my exams had been over for 2 weeks already, and from there on is holiday until start sem2 in 2 weeks time. semester 1 is oficially over. never again will i have to study on dreaded economics, boring & complicated business IT applications, mug-till-u-drop principles of tourism n hospitality, goody-2-shoe's character development (sth like CME from sec sch =.=) ... and also a module that i quite liked - effective communication.

i guess the teacher played a big part in making me like the module. shes understanding, lighthearted n constantly jokes along with us despite her strict looks. makes learning fun n effecient. EC is a rather stress-free subject in the 1st place. its just like english lessons without compres n compos.

heres a little something from my EC texts. i find it a very good example of a text using just broken english and singlish terms. nowadays ppl r either speaking standard angmoh english or rojak singlish consisting of words from other languages thrown in. so its time we learn our singaporean language properly. haha. but can make do without the broken english.

Once upon a time hor, got one girl Litter Led Liding Hoot. She want go Ah Mah house. Morning oreddy she got go out one, got take come one basket put flower. She dowan walk long-long so go take shot cut. Wah!! She donno ah, got one animal follow her one leh! Then just happy-happy walk until she come Ah Mah house.

“Ah Mah! Ah Mah! I come oreddy, open the door leh!” she talk.
Ah Mah talk back, “Come in lah I never rock the door.”
Then Litter Led Liding Hoot open the door and go inside the house, she got see her Ah Mah on top of the bed. She go ask Ah Mah.

“Ah Mah, how come your the eyes vely big one hah?”
“So I can see you battle maahhhh!!!” Ah Mah say back.
“Ah Mah, how come your the year vely long one har?”
“So vely easy hear you one laah!!!”
“Ah Mah, how come …”
“Aiyah!!! You very a lot of question one ah you …
no die before isit?”
“Sollylah Ah Mah, I donno mah that why I
ask.”
“What solly-solly! Now I want eat you… I
not Ah Mah, I animal hor!”

Wah! Litter Led Liding Hoot vely scared one, she
scleam vely loud but late oreddy, the animal oreddy
eat her.

if it were to use rojak english, the next part would be sth like this

Litter led liding hoot think, "walao.. si beh suay sia. kena sai until like this. this jian wolf so many thing to eat pian pian mus eat me. you wait, later ah ma take u buat curry!" The wolf eat her liao jiu say, "wa shiok ah! this cha bor si beh ho sek, machiam best! i go around sumore, see got anyone to blanjah me dinner."

anyway, my results are coming out in 3 days time. really hope ill do well and gimme a good start in my poly education. i doubt ill have to repeat modules, though ITAB result is sure to pull my GPA down. sheesh ill rather do PTH or econs twice again than ITAB. 2 of my modules are 1 year long: accounting and business statistics. accounts i got background so its a good headstart. but i didnt do A math, giving many others headstart over me in stats. i hate stats too. but at least better than ITAB.

its definitely not totally the end of econs and PTH. theres related modules fundamentals of marketing n geography of global tourism respectively next semester to follow up. theres also more general modules like EC, such as IDEA and Critical reasoning skills. still rather general business stuff till next year. i expect semester 2 to definitely be harder. but i guess ill adapt anyhow.